Search Results: Key Questions

[carlduncker]

Hi

Site Search has become a really key page for user experience and customer conversion. I can see quite a few requests have already been made with regards to managing the search results in X theme.

Having spent the last several hours trying to get a conclusive approach to managing search results, can any of the support team direct me to where I can find definitive steps to the following please?

• apply an existing template to search results page
• add shortcodes
• manage results to show pages only (not posts)

Other themes have latched onto the importance of managing Site Search and it would be a shame if X, who were leaders in theme development, began to fall behind.

Thanks,

[mldarshana]

Hi There,

Thanks for writing in!

1. The most appropriate way would be to use CSS rules to style your search result page. Basically you can target the page search results page by using the CSS class search-results.

For example:

.search-results .entry-title a {
    color: red;
}

2. It’s not clear what you mean by adding shortcodes with regard to search results. Could you please explain it with more details, so that we can assist you.

3. The best way would be to use a 3rd party plugin to manage search results. For example you can try a plugin like this (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-extended-search/). Or refer to the following resource (http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/12-wordpress-search-plugins-to-improve-your-site-search/).

Thanks!